WVPE braces for future as state and federal funding is cut "It's easy to destroy what has been built up over 40 years, but it's a lot harder to rebuild," Tony Krabill, content director at WVPE, said in an interview with Watershed Voice.

WVPE braces for future as state and federal funding is cut watershedvoice.com/2025/07/31/w...

Sturgis officials move to cut curbside recycling amid rising costs While no formal vote was taken, all but one commissioner expressed support for ending the service in fiscal year 2026.

Sturgis officials move to cut curbside recycling amid rising costs watershedvoice.com/2025/07/24/s...

WMUK weighs next steps after federal funding for public broadcasting slashed WMUK, a public nonprofit radio station based in Kalamazoo, reaches roughly 37,000 listeners per week. It’s now bracing for a $356,000 loss or about 7–10% of the station’s annual operating budget due t...

WMUK weighs next steps after federal funding for public broadcasting slashed watershedvoice.com/2025/07/24/w...

Microsoft chose not to exercise $12 billion CoreWeave option

🟡 SCOOP: Microsoft chose not to exercise a nearly $12 billion option to buy more data-center capacity from CoreWeave, a sign that big tech companies are starting to right-size and tailor their AI budgets.
www.semafor.com/article/03/2...

Opinion: The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is a threat to campus free speech Recently, the U.S. government sent a chilling message to university students across the country: Speak out against its policies, and it has the right to silence you.  Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia Univer...

Shared my thoughts on the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and the threat it poses:

www.thelantern.com/2025/03/opin...

Brad Sigmon: Double murderer is first US inmate executed by firing squad in 15 years Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death due to concerns about lethal injection and the electric chair.

First US inmate executed by firing squad in 15 years:

"Brad Sigmon was shot to death just after 18:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday by three volunteers firing rifles at his chest with specially designed bullets."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ohio State is officially complicit in the hate-filled, morally empty DEI purge: t.co/EPNt1G3TXC

Chris Lemmon, member of the Facebook group 'The Art and Artists of 614,' posted a call for artists to contact Reese about the decision:"There have been no formal complaints so this is strictly someone imposing their 'morals' upon us," Lemmon said.
You can message Reese yourself: bareese@columbus.gov

"... It is so important that the artists of all ability levels who take classes at the Columbus Cultural Art Center do not have such an important tool for learning taken away from them," Knick said.

Columbus Rec & Parks Department's Tyson Cultural Arts Center will cease using nude models The Columbus Recreation & Parks Department's Tyson Cultural Arts Center will cease using nude models in its art classes for liability reasons.

Columbus Rec and Parks Dept strangely removes use of nude models at Arts Center:
''Working from live, nude models has a VERY long history in classical training for artists. It is how we as artists discover how the human form works,' Knick wrote in his message."
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

Remember when Sam Altman responded to criticism of energy sources needed for his data centers by saying, "There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," essentially deferring accountability until later? Here's an update on Microsofts energy "needs":
dispatch-oh.newsmemory.com?publink=0090...

Wittgenstein A 1993 sort-of-Biopic of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, directed by British filmmaker Derek Jarman. Notable for serious Lampshade Hanging of its studio set, in which brightly coloured costumes s...

"Wittgenstein's biographer Ray Monk has asserted that Wittgenstein wasn't entirely comfortable with sexuality as such." (according to tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Wittgenstein) 
I'm assuming that was from his review but they didnt attribute

2. Ray Monk on it:
2016 tweet: "My 1993 review of Jarman's Wittgenstein. The remark about "perfect taste" makes me cringe, but I stand by most of it."
(the link he gives to his full review is broken)
and

Just watched Derek Jarmans 1993 film “Wittgenstein” and wanted to share some things:

1. Valiant effort. I thought it handled the ideas well but took some unnecessary liberties with his personal life.

This is so bleak. The president personally calling for the firing of journalists he doesn’t agree with?? On a social media platform he owns…

What to know about Mariann Budde, the bishop who upset Trump with her inaugural sermon The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Washington, made headlines this week after she angered President Donald Trump.

To name a couple:
-attacking minority freedoms and opportunities on the basis of providing American opportunities for "real" Americans
-a protestant priest thoughtfully attacking the hateful propaganda and being laughed at and accused of misunderstanding their faith…(apnews.com/article/trum...)

YouTube video by US National Archives Don't Be a Sucker

Everyone should watch 1943 US propaganda film "Don't Be a Sucker!" (youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...) It presents eerie similarities to the Trump administration and not in an alarmist, fear mongering way. Rather, in a coherent, and unfortunately blatant manner.

Award-winning philosopher Sally Haslanger to deliver Distinguished Lecture in Ethics hosted by Center for Ethics and Human Values Massachusetts Institute of Technology philosophy professor Sally Haslanger will visit Ohio State Friday to deliver this year’s Distinguished Lecture in Ethics, an annual event hosted by the univers…

Check out my first article in The Lantern:
www.thelantern.com/2025/02/awar...